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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… with carved frieze. Wooden tablet, forming support for clock, over W. door of tower, with bolection-moulded … walls of the main hall about 20 ft. and the substitution for the original open roof of a flat timber ceiling divided … lights under four-centred heads with internal rebates for shutters. The middle window in the W. wall has been cut …
A Survey of London
… Buckle.; Barges towed vp Walbrook, vnto Bucklesbery. Now for antiquities there, first is Buckles berie, so called of a … Frydus Guynysane, and Landus Bardoile, Marchantes of Luke, for twenty pound the yeare. And in the 32. he gaue the same … lane, and S. Sythes Church is the farthest part thereof, for by the west end of the saide Church beginneth Needlars …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… Letter from the Lord Mayor to the Lords of the Council, stating that Her Majesty's pleasure had been signified to the Court of Alderman by Mr. Secretary Wolley, 1 for the reparation of the Cross 2 in Cheapside, as it seemed, … given to him by the Queen, 1590; appointed one of the Commissioners for the trial of Mary, Queen, of Scots; …
Old and New London
… It shows the street decked out in holiday attire for the procession of the wicked old queen-mother, Marie de … should be so bold as henceforward to hold common market for merchandise in Chepe, or any other highway within the … of the hatters and haberdashers, search had been made for traders selling "bad and cheating hats," that is, of …
Old and New London
… there to more than 100 persons, as the hall was too small for that purpose. From 1641 till the Restoration, Goldsmiths' … The Goldsmiths' Company append a note to this return, stating that they have no knowledge of the value of the cases … of British manufacture. From the Report of the Charity Commissioners it appears that the Goldsmiths' charitable …
Old and New London
… to attend Anne Boleyn's coronation, he was attainted for treason. The tyrant, now furious, soon hurried him to the … with all his wisdom, More was a bigot. He burnt one Frith for denying the corporeal presence; had James Bainton, a gentleman of the Temple, whipped in his presence for heretical opinons; went to the Tower to see him on the …
Old and New London
… man with memories of the fresh green fields far away, was for long the residence of rooks, who built there. In 1845 two … birds found the fatigue of going miles in search of food for their young unbearable, and so migrated. Leigh Hunt, in … the old hall, destroyed by the Great Fire, the Parliament Commissioners held their meetings during the Commonwealth, …
Old and New London
… slipping, and a grand temporary wooden tower was erected, for the accommodation of the Queen and her ladies. But … sovereign can never be known (says Miss Strickland), for his angelic partner, scarcely recovered from the terror … the procession of the 9th. This was hardly a fair way of stating the case, but at length the following paragraph, …
Old and New London
… from the King's Exchange, says Stow, there kept, which was for the receipt of bullion to be coined. The King's Exchange … by her 'The Royal Exchange,' and hence the reason for the change of the name of this edifice by Elizabeth." "In … the Royal Exchange was alone entitled to give native money for foreign coin or bullion. During the reign of Henry VIII. …
Old and New London
… I.) three men had their right hands stricken off here for rescuing a prisoner arrested by an officer of the City. … Nicolas Bullingham, LL.D., and placed him before the said commissioners; who then exhibited his proxy for the said … to go on in this business of confirmation, they, the commissioners, decreed so to do, as was more fully contained …